Microscopics

Sky Guide is the new star gazing app from Nick Risinger, with music by High Skies.

Nick has been featured in Wired and on BBC Horizon as he travelled the globe taking 37,000 photographs of the night sky for this app. Point your iPad or iPhone at the sky. day or night, and it will align itself automatically showing you the perfect sky through an expensive lens and without light pollution.

Click on a star or planet and you will be able to hear it. The hotter the star, the higher the pitch; the larger the star, the louder the volume. You will be able to ‘play the stars’. All music and sounds created by High Skies using an ARP Odyssey and ARP Solina; the astronomically long reverb was created by convoluting lengthy lightning recordings.

Click on any star, planet, galaxy, nebula or constellation and there are hundreds of cross-linked articles and images, with interesting facts and mythologies.

Sky Guide, created by those awfully nice & clever chaps,  Nick Risinger and Chris Laurel.

Out now for iPad and iPhone at the launch price of 69p / $1…

High Skies – Sounds of Earth
Last in the series of six videos.
Time lapse images of Japan by Mockmoon http://mockmoon.sblo.jp

High Skies – Sounds of Earth is now available in Flac format for the first time from our new shop…

HIGH SKIES – SOUNDS OF EARTH
1 Au Début du Voyage
2 The Shape of Things to Come
3 Voyage en Argent
4 Forecast Fire
5 The Earth at Night
6 Sounds of Earth

High Skies – The Earth at Night
The shimmering lights of Earth on an ordinary night, as seen from space.
Also available in 3D viewing mode.
Images by Worldwide Telescope / NASA

High Skies – Sounds of Earth is now available in Flac format for the first time from our new shop…

We’ve just completed videos for all the tracks on the ‘High Skies – Sounds of Earth’ release, next week will be the final in the series, the title track, Sounds of Earth.

1 Au Début du Voyage
2 The Shape of Things to Come
3 Voyage en Argent
4 Forecast Fire
5 The Earth at Night
6 Sounds of Earth (next week)

High Skies – Forecast Fire
Time lapse photography courtesy of ESO (C Malin, B Tafreshi, S Guisard, José Francisco).
Photography from the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

High Skies – Sounds of Earth is now available in Flac format for the first time from our new shop…

We’ve just completed videos for all the tracks on the ‘High Skies – Sounds of Earth’ release and will be posting a new video every week.

1 Au Début du Voyage
2 The Shape of Things to Come
3 Voyage en Argent
4 Forecast Fire
5 The Earth at Night (next week)
6 Sounds of Earth (one week)

High Skies – Voyage en Argent
3D CGI by James Blinn, NASA, 1981. Voyager flyby of Saturn.

Anyone familiar with computer graphics will be familiar with James Blinn, he was a pioneer in the early days and has the technique of Blinn Shading named after him. A technique for describing how light reflects off a surface.

High Skies – Sounds of Earth is now available in Flac format for the first time from our new shop…

We’ve just completed videos for all the tracks on the ‘High Skies – Sounds of Earth’ release and will be posting a new video every week.

1 Au Début du Voyage
2 The Shape of Things to Come
3 Voyage en Argent
4 Forecast Fire (next week)
5 …
6 …

High Skies – The Shape of Things to Come
Main aurelia aurita footage by Randy Perry.

We’ve just completed videos for all the tracks on the ‘High Skies – Sounds of Earth’ release and will be posting a new video every week.

1 Au Début du Voyage
2 The Shape of Things to Come
3 Voyage en Argent (next week)
4 …

Very cool; this is an image created by Apple using our new Silk app.

They posted it to their Facebook App Store page.

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High Skies – Au Début du Voyage.
Using actual moon flyover footage created by JAXA (used by kind permission)
We’ve just completed videos for all the tracks on the ‘High Skies – Sounds of Earth’ release and will be posting a new video every Monday.

1 Au Début du Voyage
2 The Shape of Things to Come (coming next Monday)
3 …

Odessa short film teaser

Theme by High Skies

Silk app for iOS has been updated to V2

It has been rewritten and now runs on iPad, iPhone and iPod as a universal app.
SOme of the new features are; retina, save images, mix colours depending on drawing velocity, rotational symmetry, undo and spirals, and all the goodness from the website…

It’s a free update for current iPad users.

View more… Silk on the App Store